Text Formatting ⇒ Left alignment adds extra space among paragraphs

[annad]

Hi,

I need to align the text of my article to the left, following the rules of the formatting rules of a journal.
I start from a standard article setting: paragraphs are justified and indented, no extra-space between paragraphs.
When I align the text to the left, Lyx adds some extra space between paragraphs that I do not want.
I cannot choose to indent paragraphs neither.

Any advice?

Thanks very much.

Anna

[Johannes_B]

http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... 19&t=25274

[annad]

Thanks, but actually it does not work for me.

Moreover, I really want to get rid of the space between paragraphes. Even if the paragraphs are not indented, it is not a problem.

Thanks.

Anna

[Johannes_B]

As you will notice when clicking on open in online editor just above the linked forum thread, there is no space between paragraphs. I guess your document is set up differently, so we need a reduced LyX document that still shows the behaviour, as well as the LaTeX export of that reduced copy.
How to make a LyX minimal example

[annad]

Thanks for your answer.

Here is an example that shows my problem.

Anna

[Johannes_B]

You have choosen in the text formatting section in the document preferences of LyX, that different paragraphs of text should have a vertical space between them. That is what you see.

It also appears as if you prevent indenting of every paragraph by hand and put every paragraph in its own flushleft box, which will introduce additional white space. Do you want to have the complete document ragged on the right side? If so, add \raggedright using an ERT-box at the very beginning of your text.

[annad]

Thanks very much: I add your \raggedright and now my text if aligned to the left.

Just for clarity, I did not choose to add a vertical space between paragraphs. The only thing I did was to change the alignement in the Paragraph settings from justified (the default) to left alignment. This had two side effects: extra space between paragraphs and no indentation.

[Johannes_B]

Just for clarity, I did not choose to add a vertical space between paragraphs. The only thing I did was to change the alignement in the Paragraph settings from justified (the default) to left alignment. This had two side effects: extra space between paragraphs and no indentation.

It is quite possible, that LyX does add that stuff automatically. As i am not a LyX user, i cannot be sure. I don't like stuff being hidden.